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Originally Posted by id10t
Anything to get the basics of programming and problem solving (since 90% of programming is problem solving).
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Absolutely. This isn't a good example for a 10 year old but I will never forget how that point was driven home to me. Waaay back in 1968 the USAF sent me to programming school. At the end of the first day the instructor gave us our assignment for next day: write out detailed step by step instructions for shaving your face (no females were in the class).
Next morning, one at a time, each of us took our instructions to the front of the class where there was a sink with faucet, can of shaving cream, a towel and a razor (no blade) and proceeded to follow our "detailed step by step instructions" as our instructor read them out to us.
What a joke as no ones instructions were even close to being detailed enough but the point was made.
To say that programming languages and procedures have changed since 1968 is a mild understatement but the basics are still the same.. Burroughs B263 EZCODER anyone, how about a little BASIC or FORTRAN or COBOL on the side ???